Funeral Fall - 04.11.25

There is a viral video of several pallbearers at a loved one’s funeral, falling six feet down into the grave with the deceased person’s casket.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, so there's this viral video going around of several
pallbearers at a loved one's funeral falling six feet down
into the grave with the deceased person's casket. This happened
in North Philadelphia. The video shows a pallbearers standing on
a platform above the grave and the platform collapsed. Okay,
the son of the deceased man fell first, and he

(00:23):
ended up underneath the casket, face down in the mud. Yeah.
The fall knocked him unconscious. The other pallbearers suffered minor injuries.
The deceased stepdaughter said the platform was trembling, it was soaked, wet,
and wobbly before it collapsed. The family is holding the
funeral home accountable.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah I saw it well, bears.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah it was a struggle. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Who you talk about early grad gotcha?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, this was pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah. I didn't know the sun was.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
In there face yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You're talking about horrific memory of your father's funeral.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah. So I guess they're going to sue
the funeral.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
But you got to get out of here right away immediately.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a little too soon for all of this.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Get me out it's probably pretty hard to climb up
out of there to it. You would think the video,
Now I saw the video of the thing collapse. They
show anybody trying to get out today? Is there a
longer version of the video?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
No, I saw what you saw. I saw when they
when it collapsed and they fell in. The guy fell in.
I saw that, but I didn't see anybody getting out.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
But now, is this the funeral homes fault?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
They're saying that, you're saying they're holding their whole Is
it the cemetery because well the fun yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Area, right, they lay it out. Yeah, but let me
ask you this question, what is the lawsuit gonna be?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
The platform was wildly the platform. That's the only thing
I could think of the platform that they fell off safe.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, the final arrangements we're finish.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Sued something, we said somebody somebody.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Could be embarrassment, embarrassment maybe embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Steve tell us.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, I can tell you right now that little mustache
he got on he shouldn't even he could have saved
that little comment. Could they sue him for embarrassment?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
The hell? What?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Because you know it was a it was a moment
they feel in.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
A whole guarantee.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Put anywhere in hell you'll showed no hole.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Today. On today, I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Gonna have to get some cranes and we gotta.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Get The point is to get out though, that is
the point. You don't want to stay in there. Yeah,
all right, guys, after that, coming up next to his
Roscoe Wallace in the building on this Friday, right after this,
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